September 26, 2018 — The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) has released its new terms of reference for its next fisheries standard review, after reversing its August decision which would have prevented vessels from fishing for both MSC and non-MSC certified fish simultaneously.
The new terms of reference describe the areas of the MSC’s standard that will be looked at in detail, and possibly revised, over the next three years.
The areas for review are divided into three sections: standard efficiency, standard effectiveness, and standard evolution.
Reviewing standard efficiency will involve looking at the structure of the MSC fisheries standard and identifying redundancy or overlap in the scoring system. It will also focus on ways to reduce the complexity of the standard and improve its compatibility with new digital tools that could improve data management MSC said.
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